Slave soldiers enlisted more with American nationalists but the British honored them more faithfully.
Evidence
And though some fractions of the ruling class continued to resist the enlargement of the slave soldiery—notably the state legislatures of Georgia and South Carolina—in the end more Blacks were enlisted as combatants by the nationalists than by their British opponents. After the war, however, the British military proved to be the more faithful ally of the slave soldiers. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 720
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Black Civil War service marked blacks as loyal Americans unlike other ‘foreigners’ — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 540